WO2001026072A1 - Systeme de localisation de plusieurs objets base sur l'internet - Google Patents

Systeme de localisation de plusieurs objets base sur l'internet Download PDF

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WO2001026072A1
WO2001026072A1 PCT/IL2000/000617 IL0000617W WO0126072A1 WO 2001026072 A1 WO2001026072 A1 WO 2001026072A1 IL 0000617 W IL0000617 W IL 0000617W WO 0126072 A1 WO0126072 A1 WO 0126072A1
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Meir Dan
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/20—Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/123—Traffic control systems for road vehicles indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, trams
    • G08G1/127—Traffic control systems for road vehicles indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, trams to a central station ; Indicators in a central station

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  • the present invention is in the general field of location tracking services and is particularly suitable for vehicle tracking.
  • GPS Global Positioning System
  • EOTD Enhanced Observed Time Difference
  • Cell ID Cell ID
  • AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
  • CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
  • ED ACS Enhanced Digital Access Communication System
  • MSAT Mobile Satellite communications
  • a base station communicates with a communication system such as a satellite in orbit or an array of transmitter/receivers, which in turn triangulates the position of the entity.
  • a system for location tracking of mobile platforms each mobile platforms having a tracking unit; the system including: a location determination system communicating through a user interface with at least one subscriber; said communication including inputs that include the subscriber identity and the identity of the mobile platform to be located; a communication system communicating with said location determination system for receiving said remote platform identity; and, a plurality of remote tracking systems communicating with said communication system for determining the location of the remote platform; wherein said communication system is arranged to determine an appropriate one of the plurality of remote tracking systems and to communicate said remote platform identity, the appropriate remote tracking system receiving said mobile platform identity and returning mobile platform location information, said communication system being arranged to pass said mobile platform location information to said location determination system; said location determination system being arranged to receive said mobile platform location information and to forward it to said subscriber.
  • the location determination system may communicate with a mapping system having at least one map database, said mapping system accepting mobile platform location information, correlating said location information with a location on a map from said at least one map database, generating a map on which said location is marked and communicating said map to said location determination system, wherein said location determination system is arranged to forward said map to said subscriber.
  • the mapping system may communicate with at least location information system, said location information system accepting mobile platform location information, obtaining location information and returning said location information for association with said map.
  • the location information system may obtain location information from selected ones of traffic information systems, electronic Yellow Page databases, video databases, L-commerce systems and free advertising systems.
  • the map database may include maps formatted as at least one of the following: Raster Map in various scales, vector maps and air photo.
  • the user interface may accept multiple mobile platforms to be located, the mapping system accepting multiple mobile platform location information and generating a map on which each location is marked.
  • Data forwarded to said subscriber may comprise at least one mobile platform location in a map represented in HTML and an image.
  • Communication between said subscriber and said location determination system may be over the Internet.
  • Communication between said communication system and the corresponding remote tracking service is over the Internet.
  • the location determination system, the mapping system and the communication system may be accommodated in the same web site.
  • a mobile platform may be a vehicle, a person, a portable computer, a mobile telephone or any other mobile entity that can be tracked or have a tracking device installed or attached.
  • Each remote tracking system may belong to a different company and supervises a different group of mobile platforms.
  • Step (e) may further comprise the step of correlating the location of each remote platform with a map database and transmitting a map having marked said remote platform location(s) to said subscriber.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a location tracking system in accordance with the invention
  • Figure 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the operation of the system of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the system of Figures 1 and 2 illustrating preferred features of the invention.
  • Figures 4a and 4b are schematic diagrams illustrating protocol data units used in a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a schematic diagram of a location determination system (1) in accordance with the invention.
  • Z location tracking service providers referred to also as service providers
  • each offering access to a respective location tracking system For the purposes of this example only 4 location tracking systems are shown (designated generally as (11), (12), (13) and (14)).
  • One of the location tracking systems may be, for example, a Motorola tracking location system such as sytems based around Motorola's MLU (Mobile Logic Unit).
  • Other location tracking systems may be based around, for example, the Ituran VLU (Vehicle Logic Unit) or PAL (Personal Alarm and Location) or Nexus Telocation's RMU (Remote Monitoring Unit) based system.
  • each vehicle is preferably equipped with an individual tracking unit (not shown).
  • an individual tracking unit (not shown).
  • the systems (11-14) are capable of tracking the location of one or more vehicles, mobile telephones or other entities. These are shown in this example as a mobile telephone (21), a car (22), a laptop computer (23) and a briefcase (24).
  • the systems (11-14) of the various location tracking service providers communicate over the Internet (30) with a communication subsystem (3) of the location determination system (1). Communication is made using, typically, a communication protocol specific to each location tracking system provider.
  • the location determination system (1) is linked to a user database that cross-references vehicles and other entities to be tracked with the location tracking service that is capable of tracking them.
  • the location determination system (1) is also linked to a map server (4) operating a map engine for accessing a map database (5).
  • the map server (4) is capable of correlating between maps stored in the database (5) and positioning information received from the respective location tracking system (1 1-14).
  • the map server (4) may support various types of maps, such as, for example, Raster maps in various scales, vector maps and air photographs.
  • the location determination system (1) hosts a World Wide Web site (50) on the Internet (30).
  • the Web site (50) includes a home page (51) operating as the entry point to the Web site (50) for visitors, information pages (52-53) and a service access form (54).
  • Figure 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the operation of the system of
  • a subscriber to the location determination system (1) equipped with a computer (60) running an Internet browser requests the location of a specific vehicle (22).
  • the subscriber can be a stand-alone user or, for example, a member of a number of licensed subscribers in a given organization, all as required and appropriate.
  • the user logs on to the Web site (50) and selects the vehicle (22) for which the location is sought via the service access form (54).
  • the request is passed from the Web site (50) to the location determination system (1) which accesses a database (2) to determine the appropriate location tracking system (11-14) for the vehicle.
  • the location determination system (1) passes the request and details of the appropriate location tracking system (1 1-14) to the communication subsystem (3).
  • the communication subsystem (3) formats the request for transmission to the respective location tracking system (11-14) and transmits it via the Internet
  • the location determination system (11-14) receives the request and determines the location of the vehicle (22). This information is then transmitted back to the communication subsystem (3) via the Internet (30). Upon receipt of the information, the communication subsystem (3) associates the information with the request and passes it to the location determination system (1).
  • the location determination system (1) passes the location of the vehicle (22) to the map server (4) which obtains a map of the area in which the vehicle (22) is located using the map engine, marks the position of the vehicle (22) on the map and passes it to the location determination system (1).
  • the map is then passed via the Internet (30) to the Web browser running on the subscriber's computer (60).
  • Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the system of Figures 1 and 2 illustrating preferred features of the invention.
  • the location determination system (1) may host a WML-based Web site (not shown) on the Internet (30).
  • WAP-enabled mobile telephones (100) and other communication devices can communicate via a WAP server (110) to submit location requests and receive location maps or coordinates.
  • the map server (4) may be linked to map databases (5) in formats such as
  • a location data server (120) may be linked to a number of location databases, examples of which include traffic information databases (121), Yellow Pages databases (122) and databases of video of the location (123).
  • the location data server may accept connections and/or data from external data providers via an open content layer (124) that establishes a standard data communication protocol.
  • an automatic procedure, or upon request of a subscriber selected or all data on the location determined by the location determination system (1) that is available from the databases is obtained from the location data server (120) by the map server (4) and incorporated in the output map.
  • the location data received by a subscriber is normally an HTML representation of the information requested.
  • This representation may be composed of, for example, HTML and a GIF (image) component.
  • the invention is not limited to the specific user interface data, which could be made up of, or converted to, any appropriate format.
  • multiple requests for the location of the same entity are detected and processed as one request, the location data being sent to both parties.
  • the location determination system (1) may also be configured to communicate with external application servers (130) via the Internet, PSTN or other communication medium.
  • the application server may run a proprietary or commercial software system for, for example, supplying navigation information (131), managing movement of resources (132), such as for route planning between multiple destinations, billing and/or advertising (133) and emergency service management (134).
  • the data supplied to the application server (130) may include maps or may just be location coordinates in a predetermined format.
  • the location determination system (1) may also communicate location data to non-Internet based clients. For example, it may be linked to an SMS (Simple messaging service) server (140) and supply locations as coordinates, street names derived from map databases or other location data available to mobile telephones (141), pagers (142) etc.
  • SMS Simple messaging service
  • the communication subsystem (3) is an XML server.
  • Communication with location tracking systems (1 1-14) is preferably asynchronous. In this manner, as no communication channel or session is held open while the location is determined (which may take anywhere from a few seconds to a number of minutes), the use of system resources and communication costs are limited without any negative effect on the response time of the system.
  • Communication between the communication subsystem (3) and location tracking system (11-14) is preferably made using an open format communication protocol. The protocol is illustrated in the schematic diagram of Figures 4a and 4b. In Figure 4a, a request protocol data unit is shown.
  • the data unit is transmitted by the communication subsystem (3) to the respective location tracking system (1 1-14) and includes the field ItemlD (200), which contains the location tracking system's identifier of the item to be located.
  • the data unit may also contain a timeslot field (210) designating a point in time for which the location of the item is requested.
  • a location data unit is shown.
  • the data unit is transmitted from the respective tracking system (1 1-14) to the communication subsystem (3) and includes the fields ItemlD (300) and Coord (310).
  • the Coord field (310) may be in Latitude/Longditude format or in UTM format.
  • the data unit may include the optional fields of Accuracy (320) indicating the location accuracy in Meters and Date (330) and Time (340) fields indicating the date and time at which the item was at the specified location.
  • a translation system may be installed at location tracking systems that are not compatible with the open format communication protocol in order to intercept requests from the communication subsystem (3), convert the request to the location tracking system's proprietary format and to convert the location data from the location tracking service back into the open format for transmission to the communication subsystem (3).
  • the description above exemplifies the simplicity and flexibility of the system over hitherto known solutions.
  • a single subscriber can access from his home computer (equipped with commercially available browser) a web site (50) and inquire as to location of vehicles or other entities of interest.
  • the vehicles or entities may be spread among more than one company (e.g. they may belongs to different groups (21) to (24), each supervised by a respective different location company).
  • the operational center communicates with the Company Location Systems over the Internet, the sought vehicles may be located in remote locations not necessarily in the same country or o even continent.
  • the application of the present invention is not bound to motor vehicles and may used for any mobile platform, e.g. for tracking persons.

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L'invention concerne un système permettant de localiser des plates-formes mobiles, chaque plate-forme mobile possédant une unité de localisation. Ce système comprend un système de détermination de localisation communiquant par l'intermédiaire d'une interface utilisateur avec au moins un abonné, la communication d'effectuant sous forme d'entrées qui comprennent l'identité de l'abonné et l'identité de la plate-forme mobile à localiser; un système de communication communiquant avec ledit système de détermination de localisation de façon à recevoir l'identité de la plate-forme distante; et une pluralité de systèmes de localisation distants communiquant avec le système de communication, de façon à déterminer la localisation de la plate-forme distante. Le système de communication est agencé de façon à déterminer un système de localisation distant approprié et à communiquer l'identité de la plate-forme distante, ce système de localisation distant approprié recevant l'identité de la plate-forme distante, renvoyant des informations de localisation de plate-forme mobile, et étant agencé de façon à passer les informations de localisation de plate-forme mobile au système de détermination de localisation. Le système est agencé de façon à recevoir les informations de localisation de plate-forme mobile et à les renvoyer à l'abonné.
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AU76824/00A AU7682400A (en) 1999-10-04 2000-10-04 Internet-based multiple objects tracking system
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